Lamps lit in a row at dusk.

Festival · 2083

Maha Shivaratri 2083

Falls on 15 February 2083 in Pune, as computed from the real sky for that city.

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In 20,578 days

The sky that day

The Moon
Krishna Chaturdashi
The Sun is in
Kumbha
The Moon is in
Makara, in Shravana

What the day is

The great night. Not a celebration — a vigil. The one festival whose entire practice is to stay awake, which is also its whole meaning.

How to keep Maha Shivaratri

One act for the day

Stay awake. Four watches, four offerings if you keep the full form; if not, then simply do not sleep, and use the hours. This is the year's deepest night of practice and it costs nothing.

The day, for Pune

15 February 2083

Kept on the day its tithi runs at midnight (nishita).

Tithi
Krishna Chaturdashi · until 00:06, 16 February 2083
Nakshatra
Shravana
Sunrise – Sunset
07:02 – 18:35
Abhijit Muhurta
12:25 – 13:11
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The day is chosen by the moment the tradition reads its tithi at, and the times are that day's own, computed for this city. A festival-specific puja window is not printed: those rules differ by tradition and await a scholar's review.

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